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As described by Fox News:

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was rebuked as an “elite” during a recent Oxford Union debate, where she argued that populism in the United States is a threat to democracy.

Pelosi — a self-described “devout” Catholic — said during the April 25 debate that certain Americans, whom she considered to be “poor souls who are looking for some answers,” refuse to accept the answers Democrats give them on particular topics due to their beliefs about “guns, gays, [and] God.”

Challenging Pelosi’s position in the debate about populism, Winston Marshall, a musician who was once a part of Mumford and Sons and now hosts “The Marshall Show,” spoke in opposition to the Oxford Union motion that “This House Believes Populism is a Threat to Democracy.”

The Oxford Union at the UK’s famed university holds itself as a defender of free speech, and has hosted events with numerous U.S. politicians in the past, including former Republican House Speakers Newt Gingrich and Kevin McCarthy.

Marshall argued at the April 25 debate that the meaning of the word “populist” has been changed by “elites [who] have failed” to align with their own narrative.

[. . .] Pelosi had argued in her remarks that contemporary American populism currently had an ethno-nationalist character. 

“Elites use it to show their contempt for ordinary people,” Marshall said.

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